… Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. In 8 years, the plant grows 5 feet in height with a 4 foot spread. Use the Japanese maple as a specimen plant. May and June bring small reddish-purple flowers. The samaras, or winged fruits, mature in fall and turn a rich red. Fall color is outstanding, ranging from yellow to red to purple. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small flowers that appear in spring or early summer are white on most species, but may be pinkish in a few species and cultivars. Deutzias are best used grouped in informal settings as a hedge or background to a border. These shrubs may benefit from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small flowers that appear in spring or early summer are white on most species, but may be pinkish in a few species and cultivars. Deutzias are best used grouped in informal settings as a hedge or background to a border. These shrubs may benefit from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small flowers that appear in spring or early summer are white on most species, but may be pinkish in a few species and cultivars. Deutzias are best used grouped in informal settings as a hedge or background to a border. These shrubs may benefit from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slender stems and a fine-textured arching habit. The clusters of small flowers that appear in spring or early summer are white on most species, but may be pinkish in a few species and cultivars. Deutzias are best used grouped in informal settings as a hedge or background to a border. These shrubs may benefit from …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… terniflora ) features masses of small, cross-shaped, pure white, lightly fragrant flowers in late summer when grown in full sun or partial shade. The flowers are followed by billowing masses of silvery, silk-like seeds in late fall. This perennial is excellent for use as an informal vine or trained formally on …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… altissimum ) offers large drifts of milky-white flowers for about six weeks beginning in late summer. Found growing throughout much of Illinois, tall boneset, which is in the same genus as Joe Pye weed, grows 4 to 5 feet tall. Each plant has a long single stem topped by branching flower heads. It is very similar to late boneset, but differs in the leaf bases, which taper to a narrow base. The flowers attract long-tongued bees, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… it is cultivated for its fragrant flowers that open prior to rain as a response to a drop in air pressure. In hot climates, the fragrant coolness that follows precipitation is greatly appreciated. In its native environments it is frequently cultivated as an attractive hedge or screen and is …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… godmaniae is a species of ice plant with 1-inch daisylike, vibrant magenta flowers that bloom in the morning and close in the late afternoon. The bushy, creeping succulents consist of pairs of short, waxy, … annual or perennial groundcover, as the climate allows. A native of South Africa, it thrives in full sun with frequent watering; in intense sunlight its leaves tend to turn red. Ice plant …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hot pink, fragrant flowers fill the garden with the scent of lilies in flower in July. Winter hardy in the Chicago area, Acapulco Oriental lily ( Lilium 'Acapulco') reaches a dramatic 36 inches in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
